It's Thursday, June 29, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

What if I told you that the biggest issue of worldview significance that we face in our

time is something that doesn't actually get much attention and isn't the subject of

much conversation?

What might you think would that challenge be?

The challenge I would argue is the challenge of lowering, falling, descending, even cratering

fertility rates, which means fewer and fewer babies.

There are few issues that could come with such a dramatic and devastating demographic factor,

but the reality is that Christians understand there's a lot more to this than demographics.

This is not just statistics.

This is not just another number in a line of socially important numbers.

This tells us, perhaps more than anything else we could talk about, where we currently

are as a creature deep in confusion in our time.

Now before we turn to the reason we're discussing this today, and I'm doing so with a sense

of urgency, I just want to remind us that the very first command that God gave to his

human creatures, the very first command God gave to humanity, was to the human creature

made in his image, human beings made male and female to be fruitful and multiply and

fill the earth.

The first order was be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

The very first command indicates the dramatic nature of this divine priority.

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